Amasa E. Killam

Amasa Emerson Killam (25 August 1834 – 20 August 1922) was a Canadian politician, railroad official and postmaster general. He represented Westmorland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1879 to 1882 and from 1883 to 1899 as a Liberal Conservative member.

Early life and family Killam was born in 1834 in Dorchester, New Brunswick. Little is known about his ancestry. Some sources say that his paternal grandfather, Cyprian Killam, was an officer of the British Army who served in the American War of Independence, afterwards settling in Sackville after the war. At the age of 14, he took charge of a farm and cleared out 100 acres of land and built a house and barn there before he became 22. Killam married three times, and had eight children among all of his marriages. He was reelected after the general elections for several years.